Thank you Ben, for your "serious" comments. Yes, I know they are physically different; Yes, I know that setting fiber to 1000T is nonsensical. My question, which I believe has been answered to my satisfaction was more of a performance question, for a 4-5 foot run. Since it's such a short run, the consensus was that it shouldn't matter if the cable was copper or fiber, as long as it is a quality CAT5e/CAT6 cable if going copper.
And no, I didn't take offence to your responses, as you were simply replying to what I said literally, not to what I meant ;) Joe Heaton -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 4:10 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Gig ports - copper or fiber? On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Joe Heaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any real difference, if I use a copper RJ-45 port, or a fiber port ... Well, one's fiber, one's copper. That's a pretty real difference. The cables for one don't fit in the ports for another, for example. ;-) Fiber can go longer distances, and isn't susceptible to EM/RF interference. Copper cables are more durable than fiber -- if you kink a fiber cable, it will often snap, and a spec of dust can ruin your day. Fiber costs more. > if both are set to 1000T? The "T" in "1000BASE-T" stands for "twisted pair". So setting a fiber port to "1000T" is nonsensical. I suspect you're looking at an option that only applies to copper ports. -- Ben ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
